It's good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

Maya Angelou
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  1. The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people. - G.k. Chesterton

  2. One must love God first, and only then can one love one's closest of kin and neighbors. We must not be idols to one another, for such is not the will of God. - Thaddeus Of Vitovnica

  3. Never look too far to find a family. Your neighbour is your closest family. - Lailah Gifty Akita

  4. Neighbours complaining about someone’s dog making an awful racket. You could hardly blame the poor beast, its owner had died in her bed at least a fortnight before and there hadn’t been much left of the old girl worth eating. - James Oswald

  5. During your struggle society is not a bunch of flowers, it is a bunch of cactus. - Amit Kalantri

More Quotes By Maya Angelou
  1. I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.

  2. Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.

  3. Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

  4. First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.

  5. We, unaccustomed to courageexiles from delightlive coiled in shells of lonelinessuntil love leaves its high holy templeand comes into our sightto liberate us into life. Love arrivesand in its train come ecstasiesold memories of pleasureancient histories of pain. Yet if we are bold, love strikes...

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